A26981:1218
A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainness and…A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainess and…
A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainness and brevity fitted to the use of religious families, in their daily reading of the Scriptures : and of the younger and poorer sort of scholars and ministers, who want fuller helps : with an advertisement of difficulties in the Revelations / by Richard Baxter.A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainess and brevity fitted to the use of religious families, in their daily reading of the Scriptures : and of the younger and poorer sort of scholars and ministers, who want fuller helps : with an advertisement of difficulties in the Revelations / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for B. Simmons, 1685
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
13. God hath purposely concealed the time of Christs Coming from the knowledge of all Men, that all might be obliged to be in constant watchful readiness: yea, it is said, That Christ himself knew it not as man, They that say, The Year may be known, though not the Day, or Hour; distort the Text which meaneth, by Day and Hour, the Time: as if he had said, You are not sure (save by the Signs forementioned not Fulfilled) but it may be the next Day, or Hour: so that the Apostles themselves were uncertain, tho they rebuked them that pretended to know, that it was at hand, before Jerusalem was Destroyed. From their days till now, God hath kept the Church uncertain, but that it might quickly come. So that Grotius is mistaken, that thinks Paul believed it would be in his days; as if he had by a false Motive drawn men to godliness: But Paul knew not how soon it might have come. Ignorance of it is needful; but Error is hurtful: (of which before.)
13. God hath purposely concealed the time of Christs Coming from the knowledge of all Men, that all might be obliged to be in constant watchful readiness: yea, it is said, That Christ himself knew it not as man, They that say, The Year may be known, though not the Day, or Hour; distort the Text which meaneth, by Day and Hour, the Time: as if he had said, You are not sure (save by the Signes forementioned not Fulfilled) but it may be the next Day, or Hour: so that the Apostles themselves were uncertain, tho they rebuked them that pretended to know, that it was at hand, before Jerusalem was Destroyed. From their days till now, God hath kept the Church uncertain, but that it might quickly come. So that Grotius is mistaken, that thinks Paul believed it would be in his days; as if he had by a false Motive drawn men to godliness: But Paul knew not how soon it might have come. Ignorance of it is needful; but Error is hurtful: (of which before.)
14. For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods: 15. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to every man according to his several ability, and stairway took his Journey.